Hart joined The Grateful Dead this month way back in 1967 and played with them until 1995, although he did take a 3 year break from ’71 to ’74. Hart is one of the members of the Grateful Dead that continued playing after the death of Jerry Garcia in August of 1995. These steadfast few (Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart) tour under the abridged name The Dead.

Additionally, Mickey Hart has enjoyed a very successful career with The Mickey Hart Band, having released a record just last month. The album, called Superorganism on the label 360° Productions. Check out the “The Sermon”, embedded below for your listening pleasure. The studio version of this song is just over four minutes long, but this groovy live version is a whole 3 minutes longer.